The PaidContent folks find that Nokia will soon be starting a huge drive to push Mobile TV in the Spanish market.

Should be interesting. Hope the operators don’t kill it from day 1 with unrealistic pricing.

Link: MocoNews.net: mobile content news.

"The sum of [Google's potential] market, if you include the large and small companies throughout the world, is the world’s gross domestic product."

- Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google

I’m starting to get bored with this Google takes over the world theme, particularly when they themselves are out there pushing it. I preferred the underdog, humble, pre-IPO version of Google.

Link: Guardian Unlimited Technology.

The Economist talks about the future of online advertising, and squarely validates the potential of pay-per-call by calling it "the next step" after the pay-per-click model which is working so well.

It then talks about pay-per-sale being the "holy grail" of advertising, because this would be the ultimate performance-based marketing. No advertising wasted at all. Yet the example they cite, Bill Gross’ snap, appears to be having a hard time taking off. Too far ahead of its time perhaps?

Link: Online advertising | Pay per sale | Economist.com (warning: must be subscriber to access this article)

UPDATE: Pamela Parker has a great article on Pay-per-call. Check it out

Wherever you stand politically, this is still good for a laugh. Thanks, Mark!

Donald Rumsfeld is giving President Bush his daily briefing, and concludes by saying: “Yesterday, 3 Brazilian soldiers were killed in an accident”
“Oh No”, the President exclaims. “That’s terrible”.

His staff sit there, stunned at this display of emotion, nervously watching as the President slumps, head in hands. Finally the President looks up and asks…

“How many is a brazillion?”

I’ve been beta testing the new WordPress.com service and my initial impressions are that it’s easy to use and reasonably quick, but offers nothing special or new (no Purple Cow here).

Two or three years ago this would have been revolutionary, launching this today I have to wonder why anyone would go for it over TypePad. Maybe they have other, more innovative features in the pipeline?

Spain looks set to take a huge leap forward in the broadband wars. Jazztel has launched ADSL2+ this week in Sevilla, with rapid roll-out planned for the rest of Spain’s big cities by November.

The offer looks really good: 29.95 Euros for 20 meg down/1 meg up, and 24/7 free local/national calls. You can also transfer the 12.95 Euro line rental as well, removing the need to keep getting a bill from Telefonica. (details here)

Apparently there will be a TV-over-DSL offer added a few months later.

UPDATE: Just read in the UK papers that Be is launching this week with an offer of 24 meg ADSL2+ for 24 pounds (about $40 US). Nice!

This makes reading Om’s latest post about US broadband almost unbelievable. Covad selling 6 meg for $108?! Earthlink pushing 8 meg for $70?! And these are meant to be the "exciting" new deals. How executives from these companies (and all the RBOCS & cablecos) can pretend they are giving American consumers good deals is beyond me when one just has to look abroad to see how far behind the US is falling.

UPDATE2: It seems that Wanadoo in Spain are doubling their broadband speeds this month. This will take their best offer to 36 Euros + VAT for 4 meg ADSL + unlimited local/national voice. Not a bad deal, but I have to wonder why anyone would opt for this offer over Jazztel’s

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Wow, who knew 2018 would be such a special year?

Looks like that’s the target date for building the first space elevator.

And also is the target year NASA has set for the next manned moon mission.